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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Errr, no. The EU sets a minimum level of workers rights. The French have always enjoyed a higher level of rights than the minimum set out by the EU which includes things like paid holidays, protection from discrimination, parental leave, and health and safety.
The French are protesting the removal of lower working hours than the WTD legislates for and lowering the protection from losing jobs, removing 'jobs for life'.
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But each country has to individually pass the laws anyway. There is no reason that the UK can't pass it's own laws even after any exit. If the French had only stuck to the EU minimum, but felt they needed to cut back on that to help unemployment, they wouldn't be able to. Even if 99% of the French had agreed with the cuts. The Germans can't allow other countries in the EU to have more favourable business environments and so use the EU to impose the same level of restrictions as they have.